Australian Prime Minister Accuses Political Party of Asking U.S. Gun Lobby for Money

(CANBERRA, Australia) — Australia’s prime minister on Tuesday accused an influential minor political party of trying to “sell Australia’s gun laws to the highest bidders” by asking the U.S. gun lobby for donations.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison was responding to an Al Jazeera documentary that reported One Nation party officials Steve Dickson and James Ashby flew to the United States for meetings with pro-gun interests including the National Rifle Association and political donors Koch Industries in September last year for money to undermine Australian gun laws.

The trip took place weeks before the Australian Parliament banned foreign political donations with laws that took from Jan. 1, 2019. It is unclear whether they secured any money.